New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- 22 decades ago, in 1705 CE, the founder of the Khalsa and tenth Guru Gobind Singh of the Sikhs sent a Zafarnama (epistle of victory) containing these iconic lines to the Mughal E... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- I began writing this review on the 15th of February, the day of Shivaratri 2026, when the Aghoris invoke the Bhoots, Pischaasas, and the Doms of the cremation grounds to join the... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- And thus, in 1929, the Panikkar family - which now included wife Gowri and three children, Parvathy, Madhusudan, and Devaki - arrived from the deep south to the geographically br... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 24 -- KM Panikkar (KMP) could not have asked for a better Boswell to document his life, for Narayani Basu has dug into details that even KMP may have forgotten in his very rich, eventf... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- My editors have asked me to pen my thoughts on the books that have resonated with me in the course of the year. After excluding the ones shortlisted for the VoW Book Awards in the... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- Much before Modern, DPS, Sanskriti, Sriram, Vasant Valley and IB schools marked their presence in the national capital, there was the one and only St Columba's, which opened its ... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- From the perspective of India's freedom movement, 1929 was a salient year: this marked the end of the 'conservative and constitutional era' of Motilal Nehru. The baton of the Con... Read More